| General Features | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.1.21
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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0.61
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1.45.3
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| Last Release Date |
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
|
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
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| Last Update here |
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
|
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
|
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
|
| Author |
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD
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GPL
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GPLv2
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
HTML, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
Python
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Individuals, private, small groups
|
Any
|
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Any
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
any
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Zope
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
A common browser
|
various opt. helpers
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other |
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
ZODB (zope object database)
|
No
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
optional extensions available
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Development/Support | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
#zwiki on freenode
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
8695 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
0
|
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
DTML
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Output | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
WikiName [freeform name] [[double-bracketed]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
Bare urls plus markup-specific link syntax. This and all following syntax examples depend on which markup mode is used for a page, including: restructured text, structured text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, html, plaintext.. |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
''bold'' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
|
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italic// |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
|
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
{{{monospaced}}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough-- |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>above</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~~subscript~~ |
<sub>below</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] external image [Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] view uploaded image [Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] view and link to another image |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
|
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* list or - list |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# list |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : description |
Term:<def> def |
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
|
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| remove TiddlyWiki | remove PhpWiki | remove Zwiki | remove MediaWiki |